faq regarding

[Michael Sokolov]

Ivan Pulleyn <ivan@torpid.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to know the size of .bss somehow. Now I see that I can
> do something like:
>
>         movl $end, %eax
>
> to determine the end of the kernel image, given that I have defined
> $end in the linker script. Now I can start allocating dynamic memory
> after $end and not worry that I'm trashing .bss.

You've got it! That's exactly how it's done.

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